Today has finally come where I finish my internship. I have completed the required 150 hours and this will be the last day working at brand 1111 for now. I have learned a lot and experienced even more here. I’m getting ready to finish my last semester of school and in January I will be looking for a full time position at entry level in the field of graphic design. I have gained a lot here at brand 1111 from logo design, brochure, and web design. Everything has to please the client even if you don’t like what they want. The schedule and … [Read more...]
A Future Job
Finishing up my last 1/3 of this internship I have seen a lot in the last 2 months. Some things I like and others I don’t. I have felt sometimes why do I want to do this and others times this is the best thing in the world. I have come to a conclusion that I want to do web development instead of so much print design. Code is what I love to look at. Yet I still am a designer, I like to implement the design to the end and have it become a working website. This internship has shown me what type of job I think I would be good at and what to look for when … [Read more...]
Understanding a Business
I thought I had a good understand of what needs to happen in a business. Such as getting clients, doing projects, getting paid and paying your bills. That seems like a good idea of a business. On the contrary that is just seeing the main things about a business but not the hard choices of a business. Where as, the unsaid things that actuality do run the business and keep it going. Such as planning and working on strategies to further promote the business; keep it moving forward and growing. In a business there are many things that constantly need … [Read more...]
My First Web Project
After about a month at Brand 1111 I feel comfortable doing almost any project they ask. Im in the process of getting a website design approved for a company and they are letting me do the design mockup and put the whole website together. Something I never thought I would be allowed to do; I always thought that I would just help with a website. My thoughts were that I would get to keep doing the updates I have been doing for the past month like: content updates, blog post updates, and putting pages together for websites. Never thought they would want … [Read more...]
Intern Inspiration: Visit The Oatmeal
Here is a tip that has helped me. A friend showed me this website that a graphic designer/web developer has created that has comics and other things. When I’m working hard on a project and long hours and about to get burnt out I always turn to this website to have a good laugh and get inspired to be creative and keep on moving forward. I hope that this will help you to hang in there with that project your working on and to be inspired again and to be creative thinking. See an example comic from their site at right. www.theoatmeal.com SCF Graphic … [Read more...]
Intern’s First Impression
They are really friendly here at Brand1111 and are here to help me learn as much as I can about the job and profession. I want to learn what its like to work at a professional job and a firm with clients. So far I have seen some up and downs to working for someone then just doing what you want to do for yourself. In school with my projects, I did what would please me. I’m learning that instead of waiting on yourself to come up with content or figure out what you want for a design; you have to go to the client and wait on them to send you content and … [Read more...]